A Late, Great Idea

I know this is a bit late for Easter (sorry Mary) but I was recently struck by how a simple Easter type activity could be tweaked and used at any time for hours of fun.  Take the trusty Easter egg hunt, replace the eggs with some other craft activity e.g. have the kids make various insects like ladybugs etc during arts and crafts.  Et voila, you have the treasure for the Insect Treasure hunt.  Naturally, the theme could be anything you wish, the options are endless.

Create a treasure map (a la Dora and Diego) for the kids to use on their hunt.  Incorporate various learning activiities into your cartography attempts and have the kids look for various flora and fauna, other animals and anything that increases their awareness of their surroundings.  Kids love this adventurer/explorer, map following style foray and will be engrossed, enthused, excited and learning.

And when all the outdoor fun is over ye olde treasure map can be colored in (yeah, make sure you do it in black and white to start with).  Crafts, creativity, reasoning skills, exercise, fresh air, team work, learning and art (to name but a few) – now that sounds like a fun day at day care to me.

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